Polar Ice
what is the main component of polar ice?
What is frozen water.
What is a glacier?
What is a large mass of ice that moves slowly over land?
What is climate change?
What is a significant and lasting change in the Earth's climate?
Where is it located?
What is Antarctica
From the Ocean Webquest:
What is the pH of seawater?
What is 8.1.
What is the Arctic or Antarctic?
Name one place where you can find glaciers.
What is Greenland or Antartica?
Name one greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Why are scientists worried about it melting?
What is rising sea levels or extreme weather events.
From Ocean Webquest:
Since we started burning _________ _______ the ocean has absorbed about half of all the CO2 humans have put out.
What is it increases the amount of water in the oceans?
What are the two main types of glaciers?
What are valley glaciers and continental glaciers.
What effect does climate change have on ocean temperatures?
What is causes ocean temperatures to rise?
How does climate change affect the glacier?
What is melting.
From the Glacier Webquest:
What qualifies an ice mass as a glacier?
What is it is large enough and heavy enough to flow under its own weight due to gravity
Describe one impact of polar ice melt on global weather patterns.
What is it can lead to more extreme weather events?
How do glaciers shape the land?
What is through erosion and deposition of sediments?
Describe one consequence of climate change on ecosystems.
What is it disrupts habitats and species distribution?
What challenges do scientists face when dealing with The Thwaites Glacier?
What is lack of resources, workable theories
From the climate change webquest:
What is the ice-albedo feedback?
a climate change mechanism that describes how the loss of ice and snow leads to more warming, which leads to more ice loss.
What role does polar ice play in regulating Earth's temperature?
What is it reflects sunlight, helping to keep the planet cool.
Explain how climate change affects glaciers.
What is it causes glaciers to melt faster than they can accumulate new ice?
What is one international agreement aimed at combating climate change?
What is the Paris Agreement?
From the climate change webquest:
What do most scientists agree is the main cause of the current global warming trend?